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Fitness | Benefits of HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training)

Whatever your level is beginner or top athlete, you can try your hand at HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training). Step up your game to improve your body performance. 

WHAT IS HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training)?

High-Intensity Interval Training aka HIIT, usually HIIT involves short burst intense exercise with less periods of rest or low intensity exercises and hope to boost your physical limit. It aims to train your cardio-respiratory system, offering greater ease in your daily movements, improved muscle power, fat reduction, and improved muscular support.

Benefits of doing hiit

It will be great to break through the ceiling and be motivated to keep on training, so High-Intensity Interval Training would be a great training for you.

Fitness|Have you heard of HIIT? what are the benefits, let's find out!

1. Better physical condition

High-Intensity Interval Training is overall body training, so your cardio-respiratory system,speed and strength can be improved from HIIT which can contribute to your daily movement.

2. Effectiveness and progress observed

One of HIIT benefits is to burn fat and tone your muscles at the same time, because HIIT usually involves short bursts of intense exercises. Your body condition will push to the max in a short period, so it would be good cardio exercise to do when you don't have much time. Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced athlete, all physical qualities are used during a week of cross-training, which means everyone can make progress. 

3. Time saving

The High-Intensity Interval Training sessions are very short and so ideal for people who have little time to devote to sport. By training for about 30 minutes 3 times a week, you’ll see improvements in the cardio-respiratory system, muscle strength, loss of fat and good maintenance or an increase in muscle mass.

You need to relax your muscles after workout...

After some intense exercises like High-Intensity Interval Training , our muscles would be stiff which is not good for body flexibility and mobility. That's why we need to relax our muscles and these following tool can help to recovery our muscles:

High-Intensity Interval Training VS CROSS TRAINING

Cross training is becoming a hot trend, because it combines different functional training to keep boosting your cardio-respiratory system and your physical condition. Actually it is just like HIIT, but cross training has no specific resting time between each set, so it is more flexible! Set your goal and try different training combinations, it can make your fitness journey more fun!

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Common cross training tools...

Besides own body weight, add extra weights or use some tools can accelerate your result. 

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Fitness|Have you heard of HIIT? what are the benefits, let's find out!

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DECATHLON EDITOR (FITNESS/CROSS TRAINING COMMUNICATION TEAM)

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